Sentences with phrase «by rainwater»

If the insurance company determine that your home was damaged by both rainwater and floodwater, sometimes they will reject the claim.

If the damage is caused by both rainwater and flood then you may still be able to get your claim paid where, for example, the rainwater entered your house first or the damage was caused by rainwater coming through a hole in the roof (even if floodwater entered the house as well).

The law spcifically defines flood, and distinguishes it from damage caused by rainwater or stormwater, that is, rain that accumulates on the ground because of the severity of the storm.

However if rainwater entered your house first and caused damage, you may be able to argue that you should be covered for the initial damage caused only by the rainwater.

However they are all supplied by rainwater harvesting, collected from the big roof and stored in two large above - grade cisterns.

The Rain Garden uses no power and is sustained solely by rainwater.

Because the carbon that stimulates methane production is primarily dissolved organic carbon carried downward through the peat by rainwater rather than the solid - phase carbon that forms peat, this change in transport depth doubled the peak production zones for methane.

We are Eco-friendly we provide the electricity through Solar panels and our fresh water is provided by rainwater.

Cenotes are formed when the limestone that makes up the Yucatan Peninsula is eroded over thousands of years by rainwater, resulting in large «sinkholes» that appear on the surface, exposing hollowed - out caverns below that act as natural cisterns for water.

No visit to the island is complete without a long leisurely float in the beautiful blue waters of Lake McKenzie, a perched lake fed only by rainwater, encircled by pure white sand.

Water: Water is primarily supplied by rainwater collection and desalinization.

Moose, Kelly, and I snuggle up in a king - size bed before getting another early start to take a slight detour south and visit Arches National Park, a remarkable 120 square miles covered with elaborate entrada sandstone structures that have been eroded by rainwater over hundreds of millions of years.

About two - thirds of the building's water use will be supplied by rainwater.

«That's not crazy levels of enrichment, but since there was this big hole in the ground and you had 200,000 to 300,000 years, that lithium was progressively leached from the nearby rock by rainwater and deposited in the caldera lake sediments.»

Most of the remaining 1 percent of the earth's water supply is found in underground aquifers which are recharged by rainwater seeping through the soil.

Not exact matches

The problem confronted by such a poem is not that of understanding, of explanation or of establishing the rational relation among the logical subjects — wheelbarrow, rainwater, and white chickens.

Prosecco Blamed for Italy Flood Deaths The tragic deaths of four people swept away by flash floods in northern Italy have been blamed by critics on the regions burgeoning Prosecco industry accused of over-planting and damaging the lands ability to deal with rainwater...

The park district will demonstrate environmental sustainability by using photovoltaic panels, a partial «green» roof and a cistern to capture and reuse rainwater.

Adjacent to the Highland Park Country Club, the Skokie River Woods property is owned by the City of Highland Park and managed by the Park District of Highland Park as open space with wetlands and wooded areas providing open space, habitat, natural rainwater storage and infiltration in the North Branch Chicago River watershed.

By using harvested rainwater for watering lawns, watering gardens and potted plants, and for washing cars, rain barrels conserve water.

«All of the rainwater - instead of running into the storm system - is consumed by the plants on the roof.»

Vali spent months collecting snow and rainwater by the gallon.

They then compared the oxygen isotope ratio in Yonderup dripwater with that predicted by a model (which simulated the dripwater δ18O based on measurements of rainwater δ18O), as well as that measured at a different cave in the region.

Corn grown in Minnesota, for example, depends on rainwater, which is abundant and not otherwise used by people.

The clinching evidence for this was that cracks in Lajia created by the quake were filled with flood - related sediment, not the fine silt sediment deposited by annual rainwater runoff at the same site each year, showing that the flood sediment got there first, and so must have arrived within a year of the quake.

According to Nembrini, the people of Monrovia had to survive on rainwater and a hundred or so hand - dug wells, most of which were dug by the Red Cross.

61 Ancient Rain Settles Sierra's Age Geologists settled a dispute over the age of the Sierra Nevada range by studying gravel that was soaked with ancient rainwater...

Geologists at Stanford settled a long - simmering dispute over the age of the Sierra Nevada range by studying gravel that was soaked with rainwater eons ago.

Formed when rainwater collects deep below the Earth's rocky crust and is heated by molten magma, the springs are rich in minerals that many feel have beneficial health effects.

Today many proven techniques for «rainwater harvesting» can collect and store rain for later use by people, livestock and crops.

This is one of the conclusions of a doctoral thesis presented recently by Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA - UAB) researcher Maria Violeta Vargas, in which she analyses the efficiency of domestic rainwater harvesting systems (RWH), quantifying their economic and environmental benefits.

When the rainwater is absorbed by the shallow roots of pine trees, the low oxygen - 18 signal is locked in the cellulose that forms rings.

By reducing the animal product contribution in the diet, global green water (rainwater) consumption decreases up to 21 % while for blue water (irrigation water) the reductions would be up to 14 %.

Researchers found that toxic concentrations of zinc and copper in water runoff could be reduced by 10 percent to 20 percent by 2035 if all cities in the studied watersheds implemented a law similar to the Los Angeles City law that requires new and redevelopment to infiltrate rainwater from a 3 / 4 - inch storm.

Note the narrow and shallow trough drainages slightly eroded by seasonal rainwater and snowmelt and the intact, uneroded vegetated rises between them, the latter similar to those containing the archaeological horizons reported here in the buried sandur plain at Monte Verde.

Minerals are inorganic substances that plants absorb through soil by their roots or from rainwater hitting their leaves.

With the site being quite flat and the new buildings» surrounded by blocked and asphalted surfaces, it was essential rainwater is drained effectively.

Putting that plan into action, Common Ground routinely plants trees with its students, teaches them about sustainability by gardening and farming right on the school grounds, and recently unveiled their new sustainable building which uses geothermal, solar, and a rainwater treatment system.

The A-pillars likewise help to keep dirt away from the side windows as they feature special water guides where the rainwater hitting the windscreen is collected before being blown downwards and across the roof by the airflow.

And by spending so much effort trying to collecting a few drops of rainwater, many investors are ignoring much bigger leaks in their financial lives.

However, if rainwater enters your home through a roof damaged by wind, your policy might kick into effect, but only if your policy includes wind coverage, according to Allstate.

Run by César Arias, the founder and soul of the Jardín Botánico, the Posada Corazón has solar power and recycles all its rainwater.

Since Bermuda's wells only yield brackish or salt water, Bermudians collect rainwater by paving grooves into their roofs in order to funnel water into underground tanks.

At Casa Asia we strive to do our best not to aggravate this situation by trying to get a rational use of water, using a system of rainwater harvesting, catching water showers to water the plants, making separate refuse / trash collections and trying to limit the use of polluting detergents.

Brown Lake (the pure rainwater is stained brown by native tea trees) is 3.5 kilometres (2 miles) from Dunwich.

The Guest House is powered totally by solar roof panels, with fresh water captured in two huge rainwater tanks beneath the house.

The Great Ocean Ecolodge, an accommodation product by the Conservation Ecology Centre, operates on solar power, and uses rainwater collection as the primary source of water.

You may not notice the passive solar system, rainwater capture or LED lights, but you'll be stunned by the floor plan, designed to make the most of the ocean views, and the extensive use of native woods, including in a helix - like central staircase in the airy great room.

From cascading falls to tropical gardens, the hot springs are the result of rainwater heated by magma in the Earth's interior.

Not to be missed is Rebecca Horn's unforgettable 1987 Concert in Reverse, in which votive candles, irregularly tapping metal hammers, sizzling electrical charges and dripping rainwater animate and activate the ruined Zwinger building, a Medieval fortification more recently used as a place of interrogation, imprisonment and execution by the Gestapo.